Difference between Town and Suburb

What is the difference between Town and Suburb?

Town as a noun is a settlement; an area with residential districts, shops and amenities, and its own local government; especially one larger than a village and smaller than a city while Suburb as a noun is the area on the periphery of a city or large town that falls between being truly part of the city, but is not countryside either.

Town

Part of speech: noun

Definition: a settlement; an area with residential districts, shops and amenities, and its own local government; especially one larger than a village and smaller than a city a rural settlement in which a market was held at least once a week. The residents,(as opposed to , the students etc.) of a community having a university

Suburb

Part of speech: noun

Definition: the area on the periphery of a city or large town that falls between being truly part of the city, but is not countryside either.(Australian and New Zealand English) any subdivision of a conurbation, not necessarily on the periphery.

We hope you now know whether to use Town or Suburb in your sentence.

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